Extraction: a conversation on biodiversity at Lough Neagh

This short film highlights the pressing issues of material extraction and biodiversity loss by focusing on a single location.

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This short film highlights the pressing issues of material extraction and biodiversity loss by focusing on a single location. Its purpose is to spark a conversation about global material extraction and supply chains. We are in the midst of a biodiversity crisis, and it’s not just a single project, extraction site, or supply chain that’s at fault. Collectively, we must become better informed and aware of our impact on the planet.

UKGBC set up a task force to examine the impact of material extraction by the construction industry. Read more about our Embodied Ecological Impacts work, where you will find our mitigation hierarchy, framework recommendations and material impact ratings.

Learn more about the issues at Lough Neagh and why it was the focus of this short film

A 4 minute version of this film is available here.

Check out some of the audience reactions here or here.

Credits:

With huge thanks to:

James Orr and the team at Friends of the Earth
Kiran Pereira, Sand Stories
Mary McGuiggan, local resident and campaigner
Tommy Greene, Journalist
Christopher Hackney, Newcastle University
Ian Bruce, Artist
The Estate of Seamus Heaney and Faber & Faber Publishing for live usage rights of ‘A Lough Neagh Sequence’ which was read at the event by Mary McGuiggan but is unavailable for this video.

Embodied Ecological Impacts

The impact of the materials we use in our built environment is not limited to carbon emissions. This knowledge hub explores the global ecological impacts of the building materials we use in the UK, and how to avoid harm and maximise nature-positivity.